60 The Strawberry Book. 



it still more full and more accurate ; and I shall be much 

 obliged to any one who will help me in this matter. Of 

 the following varieties I have tested a great many, es- 

 pecially the foreign kinds, having fruited some of them 

 four years, and others fewer seasons ; others I have care- 

 fully observed in the plantations of friends and acquaint- 

 ances ; and for descriptions of the remaining varieties I 

 have had recourse to the best authorities I could com- 

 mand. 



ABBREVIATIONS. 



The following abbreviations have been used in this 

 list, viz. : 



Downing Downing's Fruits and Fruit Trees of 



America. Edition of 1869. 



Hov. Mag Hovey's Magazine of Horticulture. 



Boston. 



Hort . Horticulturist. New York. 



Rev. Hort Revue Horticole. Paris. 



Fuller Fuller's Small Fruit Culturist. 



Alb. de Pom Album de Pomologie. Paris. 



Lond. Hort. Soc. Trans. Transactions of the London Horticul- 

 tural Society. 



Duham Duhamel. Traite des Arbres Fruitiers. 



Jar. Mus Jardin Fruitier du Museum. (Quoted by 



the volume, as the plates are not num- 

 bered.) 



Fig Figured. 



A star (*) prefixed to the name of a variety shows that that va- 

 riety has been rejected by the United States Pomological Society. 



